Matthew Krajewski's Blog: Magical Heritage Musings - Posts Tagged "positive-energy"

So I’m a sitcom addict. I love sitcoms, and have watched the complete series of Golden Girls and Will & Grace many time over. But one that I’ve been watching recently, and found to be even more relevant to the spiritual work I’m doing now, surprisingly, is Roseanne.

In my new book, The Golden Sherpa, I briefly talk about Roseanne the character as a pop culture Goddess figure representing the Hearth Goddess as empowered yet down-to-earth role model. In the 9th and final season of Roseanne, her character dabbles in Eastern thought, meditation, crystals, and exploring the true nature of the universe. In a particularly touching scene when her daughter Darlene gives birth to a premature baby, she talks through how she believes the baby can survive because, to paraphrase, “All those spiritual books say the same thing. Our bodies do not have souls. Our souls have bodies. We are 1% physical and 99% spiritual.” This pop culture realization, while it does repeat much of spiritual thought that many people are well versed in, stresses a crucial lesson that we fail to internalize in our lives. We are not physical. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Too often, we forget that we even have a soul. To put it another way, that we are a soul.

Finding wholeness in your life can be hard when the soul is not the centerpiece. There is nothing bad, nothing negative, nothing dark in the nature of our souls. When we encounter negativity, in ourselves or in our environments, we need to remind ourselves that it is not truth. It is a challenge. A path for us to grow, learn, and evolve. The eternal parts of ourselves that cannot be damaged are our souls. Like going to wedding reception, the beautiful floral centerpieces are reminders of the beauty and love being celebrated that day. The table we set in our own lives is comparable. Our souls are the centerpiece, the gorgeous display of flowers and art that can set the tone, be the reminder, and show us how beautiful our true nature truly is.

Make your soul the centerpiece. It never dies. It is a thing of beauty. Nothing can damage it. Let it be the light to keep returning to, again and again, especially when darkness challenges you on the spiritual path. Light up your soul and let it illuminate your life. The centerpiece of your life: your soul.

When I went to Sedona in the fall of 2013, something the healers and shamans I met often referenced was how we could be running bad programs that are preventing us from reaching our full potential. Much like a computer, we can be running old software in the background that is no longer compatible with our best selves. As a shaman and mystic, I am well versed, and have even written a couple of books on the reality of our spiritual energy and how it determines the state of our own lives. But something about running programs stuck in my head.

We are complex beings, both physically and energetically, and one of the only models we have to really understand the complexity is the computer. Much like the computer, we can be running many different programs and operating systems at any given time. Some of these are recent updates, positive affirmations that boost our energy fields. Sometimes there are very old programs, old hurts and traumas that are still running in the background, and could be affecting our lives negatively. Even more interesting is how we could be running programs from past lives, things that have stayed with our soul blueprint into this life, and could also be affecting us negatively. Personality is something we tend not to explore but rather accept us unique to each one of us. But where do these personalities spring from? Our programs. From this life, and our past lives. I also call this our magical heritage, the energy fields that make us multidimensional beings. But sometimes, not all the programs are helping us in this life.

It is important to recognize when you might be running bad programs. Often times it is when we are stuck. When we wake up in the morning and just don’t feel like doing much of anything. We know better, but it is just like running old programs on your computer: it slows you down, and it may be incompatible with who you are today. Don’t get lost in your programming. Explore it. Name it. Identify it. This will help bring distance between the true you, and the programming you may be running in the background.

Running bad programs is unique to each person. But recognizing that we have such programming, that we are even more complex than the computers we use everyday, can make dealing with these programs head on that much easier.

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